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SB (1962) Appendix - Glossary

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A

Acharya - Authorised teacher of a particular cult.
Ahamkara - The meeting point of matter and spirit.
Annaprashan - A ceremony or Samskara of offering solid food to a teething child at the age of six to seven months.
Apara - Material inferiority.
Archa - The Form of the Lord manifested through material agency such as mind, metal, earth, painting, wood, stone, jewel, drawing etc accepted as incarnation of God and worshipped by regulations.
Archan - The procedures followed in connection with worshipping the Archa.
Ashrama - Orders of life in connection with self realisation.
Ashura - Person against the service of the Lord.
Astasiddhi - Eight fold perfections by mystic powers.
Atmarama - Self satisfied in spiritual values.
Avesha - Incarnation of Godhead partially empowered.

B

Bhakti - Activities of the purified senses.
Bhagwat - In relation with the Personality of Godhead.
Brahman - The Absolute Truth.
Brahmin - A person in the mode of goodness.
Brahma - The first created being head of an Universe.
Bibhuti - Specific power deputed to a living being.

D

Devata - Person obedient to the service of the Lord.

J

Jnanam - Knowledge transcendental.

K

Kazi - A Muslim Magistrate.
Karcha - Authorised notes recorded.
Karma - Material activities subjected to reaction.
Kartal - Handy bell used by the devotee.
Kali - The age in which quarrel is a common affair.
Kalpa - Millennium or material manifestation during the day of Brahma.
Kshatriya - The martial caste in the mode of passion.

L

Leela - Transcendental pastime of the Lord.

M

Mantras - Sound transcendental or Vedic hymns.
Mayavada - The system of philosophy propounded by the impersonalists.
Mukti - Recovery from material existence and be re - instated in the original form.
Mohatma - A devotee of the Lord constantly engaged in the service of the Lord.
Muktipada - Lord Vishnu whose lotus feet are worshipped by the liberated souls.
Mridanga - A particular type of drum specially made in Bengal.


P

Parampara - Disciplic succession.
Para - Transcendental superiority.
Pasandi - An offender to the Lord.
Paramatma - The supersoul localised aspect of the Lord.
Phalgooni Purnima - The full moon night in the month of Phalgoon (Feb.- March).
Prakriti - Energy or Nature.
Prema - Spontaneous attraction of Love.
Purusha - Incarnation of Godhead for material manifestations.
Puranas - Supplements of the Vedas.

R

Rasa - Spiritual humour by spiritual sense perception.

S

Satwam - Mode of material nature in goodness.
Sannyas - Renounced order of life for spiritual culture.
Sattwatas - Eternal devotees of the Lord.
Samadhi - Trance or being absorbed in the service of the Lord.
Shakabda - Year since the birthday of Maharaj Saka (79 B.C.)
Shastras - Revealed scriptures of Vedic literatures.
Shalagram Shila - Specific Archa of Vishnu (See Archa)
Sikshastak - Eight stanzas composed by Lord Chaitanya.
Suddha satwa - Purified state of the soul freed from matter.
Sudra - Person in the mode of ignorance the labourer class.
Sruti - Direction of the Vedas directly.
Sudarshan Chakra - The weapon - wheel used by Lord Krishna.
Swarupa - Original spiritual Form.

T

Tamas - Darkness or ignorance of undeveloped mind.
Tatwa - Substance.
Taraka Brahman - Transcendence that delivers the soul.
Tirtha - Holy place or the saint able to deliver a fallen soul.

U

Uttamadhikari - Advanced devotee of the Lord.

V

Vaishya - The merchantile class in the mode of passion and ignorance.
Vasudeva - Perfect spiritual being free from matter.
Vishnu Tatwa - Status of Godhead.
Varnas - Castes or section in terms of qualification and occupation.
Vaishnaras - The devotees of the Lord.

Y

Yoga - That which connects link with the Supreme.